question: saddle and testudo

[belliger]

hi barbarorum people.
as some of you already exhaustely noticed, i made some changes in EDU.TXT files, and after hundreds trys and desperate questions the to the forum, now it seems to work

BUT i noticed =>
=> about cavalry - that i cannot change 'medium horse' with 'saddle horse'. it crashes
=> about infantry - i cannot add 'testudo' attribute to the units that don't have it on default. i explain: when i play a battle, the 'testudo' icn appears on the unit screen. but when i order it, the soldiers start to prepare for testudo => get in formation, square themselves .., but just before putting their shields... the game does CTD.
i guess (guess) it is something that deals with the skins of the picture of the soldiers.
what to do????

[Watchman]

"Medium horse" is in all other respects than appereance identical to "light saddle horse"; ditto for "heavy horse" and "heavy saddle horse". No "medium saddle horse" mount exists, so of course it's going to CTD - the file's trying to refer to a mount type which doesn't exist.

I'll repeat - there's no practical difference between the saddled horses and their un-saddled equivalents (as listed above). The effects are only visual. In other words, not worth the trouble.

Also, I understand the testudo only works with non-spear units. I've seen it stated it flat out CTDs with spear animation skeles.

[Watchman]

Oh yeah. And I'm not quite sure every faction even has "saddle horse" skins allocated in the DMB, so you're also going to get CTDs if you change those mount allocations carelessly.

[belliger]

ok watchman, thanks for the answer.
i got that saddle or not saddle, the work is the same.
just a note: on EDU.TXT most opf the stesppes cavalries are 'medium horse'
and also unit 474 campanian cavalry. i changed it with saddle cavalry => when i saw it didn't work, i just came back to the good old oone.